Subject: Music

Technology:

• Suggested internet sources YouTube, iTunes
• Garage Band
• Wikispaces

Curriculum standard(s):

Ohio Department of Education
Content Standard: Creative Expressive and Communication: students sing, play instruments, improvise, compose, read and notate music.

Benchmark A:
Sing and/or play instruments, alone and with others, demonstrating a variety of repertoire, using proper technique, accurate rhythm and pitch and appropriate expressive qualities.

• Sing and/or play, alone and with others, a varied repertoire of music representing diverse genres and cultures showing expression and technical accuracy ata level that includes modest ranges and changes of tempo, key and meter.

• Perform accurately, alone and in small and large groups, with good posture producing an appropriate tone quality.

Description:

• Working in groups of two, students will use the internet (YouTube, iTunes, etc.) to locate authentic Native American music that they will replicate using Garage Band. Each group will upload their completed project to a class Wiki that will be played during Technology Day. The teacher will ensure that groups do not duplicate songs.
• Suggested sites:
  • http://www.matoska.com/cgibin/gencat.cgi?AC=genpage&CF=music&DF=intro_music.htm&DS=Introduction+to+Native+American+Music&SRC=GOOGLE&gclid=CJG2o-PhxKkCFdBrKgodQUz1JQ
  • http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fMNMWZM1Jp8
  • http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5X5A2NTyBjQ
  • http://www.rootsworld.com/rw/feature/first.html

Supporting research:

• In the article, See!, Hear! Enhanced Podcasting with Garageband, the author states that GarageBand's podcasting tool is perfect for recording student instructional project such as music ethnographies, child-narried musical stories, student compositions, etc.
• Demski (2001) describes digital music as technology that allows students with little musical background to crete and compose music. She says that it allows students to understand music and what goes into creating music, things like harmony, melody and rhythm.

Tried & True or New & Innovative:

• NI: For this assignments students will be using all fairly new technologies. Although their primary tool will be the internet, their primary sources of information will be YouTube and iTunes, both of which are new technologies. Additionally, they will use Garage Band to recreate the sound of the authentic piece.